Language in Louisiana

Community and Culture
Herausgeber: Walton, Shana

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the state of languages and of linguistic research on topics such as indigenous language documentation and revival; variation in educational opportunities in Louisiana's French varieties; current research on rural and urban dialects of English; and the struggles more recent immigrants face to use their heritage languages.

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Produktdetails

• America's Third Coast Series
• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781496823878
• ISBN-10: 1496823877
• Artikelnr.: 54549121

Autorenporträt

Nathalie Dajko (Editor) Nathalie Dajko is associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University, New Orleans, where she studies Louisiana's French and English varieties. She has published in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Language in Society, and in several edited volumes, in both French and English. She is author of French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana and coeditor (with Shana Walton) of Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture, both published by University Press of Mississippi. Shana Walton (Editor) Shana Walton is professor of English, modern languages, and cultural studies at Nicholls State University. Formerly, she was director of the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi, program coordinator for the statewide Mississippi Oral History Project, and project director for the Mississippi Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography. She is coeditor of Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century and Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture, both published by University Press of Mississippi.